Olympic gymnast Simone Biles is giving fans a glimpse of her goofy side in a video that shows her coming out of an anesthetic haze after surgery to have her wisdom teeth removed.
Biles posted the video on Twitter on Thursday, July 27. She appears on a recovery room bed with gauze in her mouth, yelling something incomprehensible and pretending to drive a car. Biles says she hopes the 27-second clip makes people laugh.
The 20-year-old Biles says the full video is 14 minutes long. She says, “Other parts are hilarious, too!”
Biles won four gold medals and a bronze medal at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro.
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